In the position they're in, that's a bloody brilliant signing for Notts County. Craig has been excellent for us, but the emergence of Samuel this season has really worked against him. As @StrongestTeam points out, he was no doubt one of our larger earners too.

Fine player, more likely to get goals than Samuel imv, has contributed a lot. Can't blame him if he wants to get some games elsewhere - hope we don't have cause to miss him in the run-up to the end of season.

Ah that's a shame, easily my favourite player in the squad now Luke has gone. In the summer I was really looking forward to seeing a team featuring Sam Saunders in the heart of the midfield and CMS playing centrally - I assumed that was why both were given new contracts ahead of Gareth changing our playing style ready for League One. I guess I got that analysis wrong. Real shame he never got a run of matches playing central striker to cement his place in the team. Samuel really needs to step up a little and start scoring to justify us sending CMS out on loan - or we need to use some of the wages freed up to bring in a Josh Umerah-style back up to Bayo to play alongside Samuel/Kashket/PCH/Tyson when the big man is not available.

Hopefully it means we are about to sign a striker on loan who has a better goalscoring record than CMS,he did well for us last season but hasn't done much this season tbf but i wish him well in the future wherever he ends up.

@HolmerBlue said:
The game against Scunthorpe he was immense, and rightly got MoM... then Samuel gets a go to give him a rest and he never had another look in really... I'm a little bit gutted as I think he's great.

Exactly this.
He was doing well, so well in the centre that there was loads of talk about benching Bayo. And we were starting to wonder if we'd wasted him a bit last season playing him wide so often.

Then Samuel goes from occasional bit part lesser game walk on player, to starting every week, and that was it.

Cruel game at times.
If Samuel can match the goalscoring element to CMS as well as the hold up and effort, we'll do very well.